Most dishonest players in the comp? Your top 10

[PhatBoy]

Selwood by a mile followed by Hawkins

As the most frequently suspended key forward in recent memory, and one of the few (roughead, Walker and Franklin are the only others I can think of) KF who concede frees more often than they get them in that time, either a) he's not doing it very well, or b) you're full of sh*t

 

[Virgin Dog]

faking a drug test seems pretty dishonest.
riewoldt and cotchin also lied about not going into the hub.
lachie hunter and the other dogs player who lied about his dui
also thought i read somewhere that sidebottom told dunn that he had organised a ride home from howes then ordered an uber instead?

im not going to count players who lie to the media about their contracts, status or intentions.

Which was the other dogs player lying about a DUI? Genuinely don't remember any others, unless it's from a while back

 

[PhatBoy]

I've said this many, many times before.

Selwood forces opponents to contact him high. He gets his body in a position where they are going to infringe unless they are very careful. He does it a) because it is the easiest way to break the tackle, and b) so that he increases his chances of the infringement, and getting a free kick.

So forwards who play in a certain position deliberately a) because it improves their chances of taking a mark and b) because it forces their opponent to risk a free kick in order to spoil - are they not doing the same thing?

Players who can see a ball that they can pick up but risk getting tackled as soon as they do so they pretend to play at it, get tackled and get a free for being held off the ball - are they not doing the same thing?

Players who hold the ball in deliberately but pretend to try and handball it to avoid giving away a free kick, are they not doing the same thing?

 

[Unique Name]

Varying degrees but these players off the top of my head.

Shuey
Zorko
De Goey
Papley
Ben Brown
Walters
Selwood
All of the drug cheaters from Bomberland.
Willie Rioli
Callan Ward
Jack Darling - a few great montages of him flopping and acting like he'd been shot.

 

[PhatBoy]

Incidentally, do normal people when you tread on lego, get a cramp, stub your toe, do you not immediately react far disproportionately to the damage actually done? It's a fairly normal human response.

 

[Numero Uno]

Nat Fyfe loves a flop and constantly complains to umpires

 

[Bearded Clam]

Woodcock from Port won the rising star for this category this week
One for the future surely.

He’s learning from the very best in Robbie “oscar” Gray...

Seeing a couple of flops from young McAdam from the crows in recent weeks.. hope he gives that crap up real quick..

riley knight loves to duck into tackles..

No one beats Selwood though.. except maybe Rance..

 

[basashi]

The principal form of cheating in the game is the use of cash payments, favours, promises of future employment etc for players and their families in order to secure players your club would not otherwise have.

The campaigners (and they ARE campaigners) who accept this are far and away the most dishonest cheats in the game.

looking at on field indiscretions is barking up the wrong tree entirely.

 

[Shaq attack]

Surprised no one has mentioned Neville Jetta yet. The dude runs around head first into everything. Jack Macrae, although a good footballer is an absolute stinker for accentuating contact.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Grimes is a milker, not a stager. He's never gone down without contact, most of his frees are off the ball blocks or bumps with a reasonable force. What grimes does is that while he could stay on his feet, he doesn't even try and puts his arms put. QF against Brisbane is a perfect example. He sees Hipwood coming and puts himself into the back foot so that a mild bump will knock him over. He could have stayed up if he tried, but he didn't bother trying.

Papley is definitely a stager not a milker. Maynard gave him a light touch to the middle/lower back and papley went down like Marylin Manson trying to suck himself off.

Love the defence of stager v milker

 

[Chief]

the fact we have a thread like this suggests something is becoming very wrong culturally in the AFL

it's time for the AFL to read the riot act and then start suspending players

Pretty sure it's a cleaner game these days.



(Back when I was a poor boy I made a few bucks out of referring sales for these videos.)

 

[Bearded Clam]

Incidentally, do normal people when you tread on lego, get a cramp, stub your toe, do you not immediately react far disproportionately to the damage actually done? It's a fairly normal human response.

What are you on about?.. Lego bloody hurts like hell when you step on it..

 

[PhatBoy]

What are you on about?.. Lego bloody hurts like hell when you step on it..
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Well that is true, it's a c***

 

[theyellowsash]

Love the defence of stager v milker

hey, grimes milks contact for everything its worth and hes up there with the best of them. but at least there is some contact. same as selwood and those types.

but what papley did, even with a minor touch to the back, is a level above milking and is a joke.

 

[theyellowsash]

Which was the other dogs player lying about a DUI? Genuinely don't remember any others, unless it's from a while back

didnt another dogs player cover for hunter to the police/afl and drop him off somewhere else where he kept getting drunk? i have it in my mind that it was bailey smith but that might just be his gross haircut clouding my thoughts.

 

[Stax on the mill]

Love the defence of stager v milker

Agree! WTF is the difference between milker and stager? Minuscule at best.

 

[refresh]

Surely has to be Willie Rioli

 

[Asapartyhat]

What about Jack Watts ? He gets paid to be a footballer and he spends all day swimming with ****

 

[Numero Uno]

surely its Jesse Hogan

rolled his car in the middle of the day then the club stated no alcohol or drugs were involved without an investigation

 

[Virgin Dog]

didnt another dogs player cover for hunter to the police/afl and drop him off somewhere else where he kept getting drunk? i have it in my mind that it was bailey smith but that might just be his gross haircut clouding my thoughts.

Nah Smith and Gowers were there (I think Smith drove him to Gowers place) but I don't think either were actually involved in any way, and didn't lie. That was 100% Hunter's * up. Could also have been thinking of Libba being found with coke? Although he didn't lie either, pretty sure he was just cooked in a gutter or something like that

 

[Gavin Excell]

Agree! WTF is the difference between milker and stager? Minuscule at best.

I think the distinction is the milker plays for my team, the stager for the opposition

 

[Warhorse]

Selwoods technique is an attempt to break a tackle. Up to the umpire to call play on.

Dangerfield is much worse

 

[demondavey]

didnt another dogs player cover for hunter to the police/afl and drop him off somewhere else where he kept getting drunk? i have it in my mind that it was bailey smith but that might just be his gross haircut clouding my thoughts.

Slightly off topic but nothing beats Brent Renouf jumping on cars one night

 

[HTPunter]

Tippa validating my earlier comment with an awful dive v the Suns just then

 

[theyellowsash]

I think the distinction is the milker plays for my team, the stager for the opposition

ah, the good old 'you dont count because of your team' argument